A tenured faculty from SA Asia in a teeny engineering college (NIT/KOSEN) in southwest Japan. Molecular Paleobiology. //東南アジア出身の国立高専教員。分子古生物学。Tweets are my own.
Gave a talk at the Annual Conference of the Japanese Society of Zoological Systematics and Taxonomy, about our latest work on the vampire squid genome. Had a lot of fun!
[Octopuses Are Just Bootleg Squids!!!]
https://t.co/XJwHsCnGqk
So what’s the deal?
Vampire squids are technically octopuses, but their genome screams “squid.” At the same time, they show some octopus traits.
THEY'RE NOT ALIENS, THEY'RE JUST WEIRD!!!
@yoshidamasaaki